Episode Synopsis: The episode starts off with the voice of Teresa Halbach on an answering machine setting up an appointment to take pictures of a car for sell at Avery Auto Junkyard (Steve's family business). And forebodingly skips to a video of her talking about dying young. Now being released from prison after 18 years, Steven finds himself a media darling and sympathetic figure before all hell breaks loose.
Key Players in Ep 2:
Teresa Halbach: Missing person turned murder victim
Mark Gundrum: Rep Wisconsin State Assembly & Founder of Avery Task Force
Walter Kelly: Steven Avery's Civil Rights Lawyer
Judy Dvorak: AKA Big Bird
Eugene Kusche: AKA The Penguin
Sgt. Andrew Colborn, Lt James Lenk & Sheriff Kenneth Petersen
I am always a bit wary of the media ex-con turned media darling, it's the set up for a big fall. It's as if the whole world is waiting for that person to prove themselves the criminal that they thought they were. Listening to Mark Gundrum had me worried from the start. How can a man that's been locked away for 18 years live up to the hero expectations with an entire sheriff's department against them? By the end of the episode, when shit got real, he was all too ready to believe that Mr. Avery was in deed the animal that they thought he was. Whatever happened to seeing it through? Perhaps the cost was too steep? I'm sure he had to worry about votes and keeping his job.
When Big Bird and the Penguin started the two step once again by dodging their earlier written and documented statements about Mr. Avery it was damning to each of them. Mr. Kusche went as far as to insist that Mr. Avery, although he'd been proven to be innocent was still guilty of the original rape. I told you that this dude thinks that he is the smartest guy in the room, even if he's in the Brookings Institute. Un-fucking believable the arrogance of this man...
When it is revealed that Sergeant Colborn received a phone call in 95 about a prisoner that had admitted to a rape that someone else was in jail for and refused to take action on it, I wept. Who in the fuck is that cold? Later it's revealed that Sgt. Colborn makes a report on it in 2003 at the direction of Lt. Lenk, right after Steven Avery is released from prison. I was pissed. OK, I get it CYA... Cover your ass. These men are monstrous, if these actions are factual. As court proceedings wrap, Mr. Kusche finally proves to be too smart for his own good and is caught up in his own statement from 95. Finally, the Penguin cracks, as he stammers through his explanation of the written report, he's clearly on the ropes and caught the fuck up. It's all good though, he passes the buck to good ole Sgt. Colborn by saying that he must have gotten (remember his memory is foggy) the information from him. This is the shit show of all shit shows and these two pieces of excrement prove to be the rankest of the lot.
Wait, what? The guy that was falsely imprisoned for 18 years, recently exonerated and winning a suit for the wrongful handling of said case is now a prime suspect in the murder of a missing person? Where they do that at??? When faced with adversity it's instinctive for most humans to save themselves. For a group that would knowingly allow a man to be sent to jail for a crime he didn't commit, is being sued and may be held personally liable in said suit, do I really trust that they didn't rush to judgment on this? Hell to the naw. The minute that there was a link between Ms. Halbach and Steven Avery I knew he was enemy number one. The fact that there was a link gave a chance to create an easy target.
I completely get it. Circumstances such as the fact that she visited Steve, he was the last stop of her day, his spot the last place where she was able to be contacted and he's an ex-con is damning. Add to it the fact that after a five days the victim's car is found, hidden by debris on Mr. Avery's Salvage yard. I don't know about you, but I found it interesting that the person that found the car 1) asked to go in it" (who doesn't know you could compromise any evidence contained therein) 2) calls 911 and barters with the operator for classified information before revealing the address of the car's whereabouts?
If it were me I get the fuck out of there before Leatherface
came charging out of the junkyard with a chainsaw. Seriously, wouldn't anyone else be scared as hell? It all seems too convenient for me to believe. The fact that this is the case provides motive for a set up if not something else all together. Anyone that would have killed Teresa Halbach would already know that planting the car at Mr. Avery's spot would be perfect. It also scares me that the sheriff's department had access to the property for 8 days without Steven Avery regaining access to his own property. This is more than enough time to make sure that Mr. Avery was suspect #1 and guilty before trial. I also found two things interesting that a female investigator says as she searches Avery's home; As she reads a letter from the Wisconsin Innocence Project she laughs and says, "I don't think he's going to be able to make it." A few seconds later she says, "We should take all of these shoes in case we have any unsolved burglaries so that we can take impressions." Objective much? This series has me twisting, turning while fuming and all over the place emotionally. Next up: Ep 3 The Slight Cause He's Accused.
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